MeisterEckhart wrote on Aug 3
rd, 2024 at 1:10pm:
The concept of freedom pervades every aspect of American public life.
From their pledge of allegiance, recited by schoolchildren from their earliest age to nearly every national and state political speech, from their songs, and national myths, to their core sense of self.
They are almost born with the notion that the US is the freest nation not only currently anywhere in the world but the freest nation that has ever existed.
When questioned about this notion they commonly refer to the 2nd amendment, comparing their constitutional right under that amendment with all other nations, none of which grant a similar right.
Unsurprisingly. it comes as a shock to many of them that the World Freedom Index rates them as low as 15th.
The real problem is "they" - ie the American 'public' - fail to see the class divisions tearing the community apart, which the "freedom" narrative ignores.
(microsoft news)
TV icon declares Democrats have 'kind of lost' the working class vote©YouTube
Mastromonaco, who worked for Obama from 2011 to 2014, defended the use of the label "wierd" (used by Harris to describe Trump and Vance), while Couric (a devout Liberal) , visibly unamused, suggested Democrats had more pressing matters at hand than pandering to social media users and Gen Z.
'You can think their behavior and their rhetoric is weird,' Couric said, 'but you can also do a better job of reaching out to disaffected voters who are non-college educated White people, in particular who feel left out.' Back in April, Couric, 67, appeared on another podcast where she spoke about the election, this with fellow liberal Bill Maher. 'The socio-economic disparities...and class resentment...and anti-intellectualism and elitism is what is driving many of these anti-establishment [people] — which are Trump voters (from the working class)' she said at the time. 'I mean globalization and the transition from an industrial to a technological society — I don't know if you've ever been jealous of someone else or resentful — it is such a corroding and bitter, almost bile feeling'......
Reminds me of Trump's statement in 2016 when he said "You are living in poverty, your neighborhoods are like war zones...." ( referring to inner-city black ghettos); Hillary merely said "The Dems are the party of the underdog".
Both Michael Moore and I knew Trump would win after that, because the mainstream neiloberal Dems - like the mainstream neoliberal Repugs - were indeed as useless as an ashtray on a motorbike, as far as dealing with the
1st world rust-belt issues which had destroyed well-paying working-class jobs, were concerned.
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